UPDATE: Here are Friday's worst stock-market performers as oil takes the market down

9:21 am ET March 7, 2020(MarketWatch)

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By Philip van Doorn, MarketWatch

The largest one-day decline for oil since 2014 pushed 13 stocks in the S&P 500 energy sector down by double digits

On the worst day for oil prices in more than five years, the broad U.S. stock indexes took another beating on Friday.

-- The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 256.5 points, or 1%, to close at 25,864.78.

-- The S&P 500 index fared considerably worse, with a 1.7% decline on Friday. The benchmark index ended 12.2% below its last closing record set on Feb. 19.

-- The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 1.9%.

West Texas Intermediate crude oil for April delivery plunged 10.2% to settle at $41.28 a barrel -- the biggest one-day decline for the most active contract since Nov. 28, 2014. The S&P 500 energy sector fell 5.6% and its worst performers are listed below.

A flight to safety was underlined by very strong demand for U.S. Treasury paper. The yield on 10-year Treasury notes plunged as low as 0.66% early Friday before moving up to 0.75% at 4 p.m. ET. That was down from 0.92% Thursday, 1.13% a week earlier and 1.92% at the end of 2019.

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